subs facing?, does it matter? Options

[lake1069]

i have 2 12" 700watt subs in my hatch, i've been messing with the levels to get it to sound just like i like them, but i'm wondering if it makes any differece which way the subs face, like toward the driver or opposite?

[Abraxis64]

silvan,

very good points however, i believe i touched on this very briefly (perhaps too briefly) with my assertion that, depending on just how many inches away you place the woofer from the loading panel, you'll get different results. in any case, it is my standpoint that the average listener has a certain frequency range which they'd like to amplify and they would take this into account when planning/setting up their system. my home theater environment, for example, is not optimal, which means i do have deadspots (nodes, by your terminology) in a coupleof places within a certain frequency range. i simply adjusted it such that i had the freqs that i wanted in the places that i want. in an automobile, response will be totally screwed up since it is, essentially, one of the worst environments for hi-fidelity reproduction of sound

very few listeners will have as discerning an ear (nor will they have the testing equipment) as you do...and they'll probably keep listening in happy ignorance or something like it. i know i do

as far as the EBP, i like how you made sure to include qts in your "categorization" since ebp is, by itself, a flawed system--one that aims to compare BL and Mms but actaully only compares their product of mms and cms. nice work there

peace

oh, and lake--if you do in fact have two 8 ohm drivers wired in parallel for a 4ohm final bridged load...that's pretty much as good as you can get. only option here is switching equipment (sealed for ported; amp for another amp; subs for another sub; etc)